Basic Draft rules:

Draft pits you in a league against other managers, as you build a 15-man squad to take you to the top

Before your league starts you’ll take part in a live draft to choose your team, with no players in the league duplicated

That’s right, if you have Mohamed Salah in your team, then that means Bob from HR doesn’t

In a 15-man squad you will have four substitutes, but only your starting XI will earn you points each week. Your substitutes will come into your starting XI automatically if one of your players is suspended or injured, and you can rank your substitutes in priority order

The game weeks work on a head-to-head basis, pitting you up against another manager in your league each week with three points for a win, zero points for a loss and one point for a draw

Unlike the Season game, Draft only counts points from Premier League matches. So cup competitions are excluded

Because it’s a head-to-head system, leagues must consist of even numbers with a minimum of four teams. Six or eight are probably the optimum league size

If you don’t fulfil the league size requirements that you’ve set, the draft will not happen. So if you set the number to 10 teams, you need to have all 10 slots filled

You can now start assembling your Draft teams, with leagues already available to create

Player trades and free agents

Once the live draft is complete, that is your initial starting squad assembled

But if you’re not happy with your selections there are ways to change your squad once your league is up and running

You can trade players with other managers in your league, as long as you’re not in the middle of an active game week or during a lockout

You can also sign ‘free agents’, as there will inevitably be players that haven’t been picked in the initial live draft, who are essentially new signings that haven’t been picked by any other manager

Some free agents can become ‘restricted free agents’ if you want them to be, meaning everyone in the league can ‘bid’ on them. This is an advanced setting.

Player lockout will lift almost as soon as the final Premier League game of the Game Week has finished, which will then allow you to make trades or sign free agents. So on the first Premier League weekend, lockout will lift pretty much straight after Manchester United and Chelsea’s match finishes

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